Federal Register / Vol. 60 No. 187 / Wednesday, September 27,
1995 / Notices Page 49856-49857
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Notice of Inventory Completion of Native American Human Remains
and Associated Funerary Objects from the Island of Kaua i in the
Collections of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Honolulu, HI
AGENCY: National Park Service
ACTION: Notice
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Notice is hereby given in accordance with provisions of the
Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, 25 U.S.C.
3003 (d), of the completion of the inventory of human remains and
associated funerary objects from the Island of Kaua i by the
Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum Honolulu, HI.
A detailed inventory and assessment of these human remains and
associated funerary objects has been made by Bishop Museum's
professional staff, and representatives of the following Native
Hawaiian organizations: Kaua i / Ni ihau Island Burial Council,
Hui M lama I N K puna O Hawai i Nei, and the Office of Hawaiian
Affairs, Native Hawaiian organizations under 25 U.S.C. 3001(11)
and individuals Mr. Edward Ka iwi and Ms. Aletha Kaohi, of
Kaua i.
The human remains represent at least 85 individuals and 32
associated funerary objects. These remains came to Bishop
Museum from the following sources:
In 1900, J. K. Farley donated one skull from K loa. In 1916, J.
F. G. Stokes collected one calvarium from M h ulep with a shell
and four glass beads. In 1918, the Museum purchased one skull
from Wailua from H. Schultz. In 1922, Herbert E. Gregory,
Director, and Edwin H. Bryan, Curator of Collections, at Bishop
Museum, with Kaua i residents H. & R. von Holt, L. Thurston, and
Lindsay Anton Faye, removed seventeen remains, one stone flake,
twenty shells and two wood fragments from Kalalau, Nu alolo
Valleys. In 1922, Gerrit P. Wilder donated a skull from K p
Kai. In 1926, C. J. Fern and W. W. Henderson donated one set of
fragmentary remains from Hanalei. In 1927, H. E. Gregory
collected one fragmentary set of skeletal remains from K p Kai.
In 1928, Wendell C. Bennett and Kenneth P. Emory, Anthropologists
at Bishop Museum, collected two sets of remains from sands dunes,
L hu e district. In October 1928, W. C. Bennett shipped twelve
remains, mostly skulls, from Waimea. In December 1928, Bishop
Museum received four crania from Ke lia, from W. C. Bennett. In
1929, W. C. Bennett removed fifteen sets of remains from K p
Kai, Kaunalewa caves, and Nu alolo. The remains from Nu alolo
were associated with 1 bead. In 1936, the Museum received one
set of human remains from H ena from an anonymous donor. In
1947, George Arnemann donated one skull from Kalihi Kai and one
from Ka aka aniu. In 1948, Mrs. William Weinrich donated one
skull from Kaua i. In 1949, a group of students under K. P.
Emory, excavated thirteen human remains a rock and shell
fragments from a bull-dozed site at Wailua. In 1951, the Museum
recorded one set of human remains from Po ip from an anonymous
donor. In 1956, Lawrence P. Richards donated one skull from
Aweoweonui. In 1959, Adna Clarke, Jr., donated one set of human
remains from Hanap p . In 1964, Robert N. Bowen, Museum
employee, collected a single vertebra at K loa. In 1964,
Frederic O. Wolf, donated one skull from Kaua i. In 1965, Lloyd
J. Soehren, Museum anthropologist, excavated one set of human
remains and an animal bone fragment from Nu alolo. In 1974, John
E. Reinecke donated the remains of four partial skeletons from
Po ip . In 1984, Stella Hobby donated one skull from Kaua i. In
1989, Andrew J. Hingsberger donated one skull from Nu alolo.
No known individuals were identified. In consultation with
Native Hawaiian organizations and at their recommendation, the
Bishop Museum decided that no attempt would be made to determine
the age of the human remains from Kaua i. Geographic location of
the remains, types of associated funerary objects, and method of
burial preparation are recognizable as burial practices of Native
Hawaiians ancestral to contemporary Native Hawaiian
organizations.
Based on the above information, officials of the Bishop Museum,
in consultation with representatives of the Kaua i / Ni ihau
Island Burial Council, Hui M lama I N K puna O Hawai i Nei, the
Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Edward Ka iwi and Aletha Kaohi, have
determined pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2) that there is a
relationship of shared group identity which can be reasonably
traced between these remains and present-day Native Hawaiian
organizations.
This notice has been sent to the Kaua i / Ni ihau Island Burial
Council, Hui M lama I N K puna O Hawai i Nei, the Office of
Hawaiian Affairs, Edward Ka iwi and Aletha Kaohi. Representatives
of any Native Hawaiian organization which believes itself to be
culturally affiliated with these human remains and associated
funerary objects should contact Anita Manning, NAGPRA
Representative, Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, P. O. Box 19000,
H o n o l u l u , H a w a i i , 9 6 8 1 7 - 0 9 1 6 ,
, 808-848-4117, before October
27, 1995.
Dated: September 21, 1995
Francis P. McManamon
Departmental Consulting Archeologist
Archeology and Ethnology Program
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